Activities

The members of the Interactive Arts Lab belong to labs and research groups of various Greek universities such as the “Lab of New Technologies in Communication, Education and Mass Media” of the department of Communication and Mass Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (with a participation and publications of the research teams in “Usability and accessibility” as well as “Senior citizens, new digital media and intergenerational learning”).

The members of the lab also contribute to various activities of the Department of AVarts, such as the creation and formulation of the undergraduate curriculum. Furthermore, they contribute to the smooth flow of the implementation of the undergraduate studies through their participation in non-statutory committees like: the Curriculum Committee, the Internship Committee, the Organizing Committee of the Audiovisual Arts Festival, etc. The contribution of the members of the lab to the department as a whole, in some cases since its opening, but mainly the relevance of their scientific field in accordance with the object of study of the department of Audio and Visual Arts, is what makes clear the importance of their contribution to the organization of the Postgraduate degree curriculum.

Splice Festival aims to present a collection of new performative work that blurs the boundaries between the creative disciplines of moving image, sound art, live and electronic music to create unique audio visual experiences that can engage a broad range of audiences. Submission deadline: 20th January 2018 at 5pm GMT.

Bill Psarras delivered a speech entitled ‘Geohumanities and performance art: The politics of activating bodies and places in intermedia ways‘ at ‘The Politics of Space and the Humanities International Conference‘, which took place from the 15th to the 17th of December 2017 in Thessaloniki in collaboration to Fulbright Foundation and Hellenic Association of American Studies.

Bill Psarras delivered a speech entitled ‘Spatial Poetics and the City: Glocal imaginaries in site-specific walking performance‘ at Radical Cities, Radical Narratives International Conference, which took place on 20th of October 2017 in London in collaboration with Dept. of English and Center for the Geohumanities – Royal Holloway University of London.

Dr. Dalila Honorato, member of the Interactive Arts Laboratory, will participate as guest speaker in the session "Repetition and Difference" included in the program of FACTT - Festival of Art & Science Trans-disciplinary and Trans-national in Berlin on November 30th at 18:00.

The animation feature film THEOX by Giorgos Nikopoulos, graduate and Phd Candidate at Audio & Visual Arts Departments of Ionian University, will have a wordwide premiere at Olympion Cinema Theater, on Thursday, November 9th at 18.00 during the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and will be repeated on Saturday 11th at 17.30, at Tonia Marketaki Cinema Theater located, Apothiki D, Port of Thessaloniki.

Dr. Dalila Honorato, member of the Interactive Arts Laboratory, will talk for the 'Semiotics of the Uncanny', followed by a discussion facilitated by Isabel Burr Raty. Saturday, October 21st 2017, 16h-19h, 4th floor, a.pass Research Center.